Society
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2019 World Scout Jamboree in US sees record Czech participation
Hundreds of Czech scouts are currently in the United States taking part in the movement’s World Jamboree, which is being attended by 40,000 people from all around the…
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Town Hall flying LGBT flag to be “very symbolic moment” for Prague Pride
Final preparations are being made for the ninth edition of the Prague Pride festival. For the first time this year the LGBT rainbow flag will be flown at the city’s Town…
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“Masaryk really liked the idea”: Czech YMCA members on organisation’s past and present
A major celebration of the 175th anniversary of the YMCA gets underway in London next Sunday and among those in attendance will be a delegation from the Czech Republic…
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Czechs can expect to live longer, but not in good health
As elsewhere in the developed world, the average life expectancy for Czech men and women has been growing, but the sad news is that they are not spending their old age in…
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Prague’s Žižkov TV Tower set for videomapping of Apollo 11 moon launch, landing
The Žižkov television tower in Prague, once voted the world’s second-ugliest building, will host a virtual space launch this Saturday evening – thanks to an ambitious…
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Ostrava district officials, Food Not Bombs at odds over homeless outreach
The international volunteer group Food Not Bombs has been providing free food to the homeless and hungry since 1980, and now has branches throughout the Czech Republic. In…
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‘Red Paw’ – First Czech blood bank registry for dogs
In the Czech Republic, as in many other countries, veterinarians have long faced the same problem: a shortage of dog blood, necessary in case of urgent transfusions. To…
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Star statistician Ola Rosling schools Czechs on democratising data, systematic misconceptions
Swedish statistician Ola Rosling is co-founder of Gapminder, a foundation that aims to chart trends and use data to fight what it calls “devastating ignorance” using “fact…
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Beer, schnitzel and mushroom picking – unique set of emojis captures Czech soul
A Czech design student has come up with a custom set of 180 emojis that depict various aspects of Czech life and humour. Within a week of being shared on social media, the…
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Holocaust child survivor’s dream of building memorial to child victims of the Holocaust comes true
A child survivor of the Holocaust who was interned at Terezin at the tender age of five, Vera Egermayer could be forgiven for wanting to forget the past. Instead, like so…
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Czechs among the most honest nations in the world, study says
Czechs are one of the most honest nations in the world, at least according to a research called ‘Civic Honesty around the Globe’, published in the US magazine Science. The…
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Parliamentary commission reopens discussion on compensating women for forced sterilisation
Between 1966 and 2012, many women were involuntarily sterilised in Czech and Czechoslovak hospitals. The government has since apologised for the practice and discussed…
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